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Higher education is often seen as a potential silver bullet for breaking cycles of poverty in the US, yet research continually finds that low-income students face perversely daunting barriers to attending college and completing degrees. This has been true for generations and many know it to be true now, but much conversation and scholarship on this issue …

In recent years, maker culture has emerged as an all-ages movement, marked by a DIY ethic and communal sharing of resources & knowledge. Makerspaces have popped up all over as centers where people come together to share resources, knowledge, and ‘stuff’* in their creative pursuits. This is an intriguing concept to a lot of librarians …

I just finished reading (well, listening to) "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success" by Dr. Carol Dweck. I originally found this book in the book drop some time last year. I recently picked it up and really enjoyed it. Being that the hardcover copy is rather heavy, I decided to download the audiobook. I listened to …

Our very own Anne Hays has a Zine collection that is now in the Barnard Library. Congratulations, Anne on this exciting accomplishment! You can learn more about Zines from Barnard's website. We hope that Anne will help us to learn more about Zines.

Though the title may sound a bit cheesy, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team was a pretty good book. No wonder it was on the NY Times Best Seller list for so long! I actually decided to read the book for an internship, but I found it very useful for other team situations in my …

Title: Closing the achievement gap : how to reach limited-formal-schooling and long-term English learners
Authors: Yvonne S. Freeman, David E. Freeman & Sandra Mercuri
Publisher: Heinemann
Call Number:PE1128.A2 F744 2002From the Publisher:
Struggling older English learners pose a real challenge for educators. Some of these students are new arrivals with limited or …

Title: White middle-class identities and urban schooling
Authors: Diane Reay, Gill Crozier, David James
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Call Number:HT690.G7 R43 2011 From the Publisher:
Decades of neo-liberal reforms have established a market in secondary schooling, where 'choice' and 'diversity' are expected to drive up standards and maximize individual responsibility. This is known to favour …

Title: Teacher education matters: A study of middle school mathematics teacher preparation in six countriesEditors: William H. Schmidt, Sigrid Blömeke, Maria Teresa Tatto, et al.
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Call Number:QA10.5 .S36 2011From the Publisher:
Based on a major international teacher education research project—the Mathematics Teaching in the 21st Century Study (MT21)—this …

Title: Collaborative search and communities of interest: Trends in knowledge sharing and assessment
Editor: Pascal Franq
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Call Number:ZA3075 .C665 2011From the Publisher:
Since the dawn of the 21st Century the invention of Web 2.0 has enabled people from all backgrounds to contribute content on the Internet. In doing so, …

Title: Intersections of multiple identities: A casebook of evidence-based practices with diverse populations
Editors: Miguel E. Gallardo & Brian W. McNeill
Publisher: Brunner-Routledge
Call Number: RC455.4.E8 I72 2009From the Publisher:
Over the past two decades, there has been an increase in the need to prepare and train mental health personnel in working with diverse …

Title: Teaching Second Language Reading
Author: Thom Hudson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007
Call Number:P53.75 .H83 2007From the Publisher:
This book examines a variety of approaches from classrooms and research that are used for teaching reading, and explores teaching methods focused on strategies.
About the Author: Thom Hudson, Professor of Second Language Studies …

Title: Academically adrift: Limited learning on college campuses
Authors: Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Call Number: LA227.4 .A78 2011From the Publisher:"Almost everyone strives to go , but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift: are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there?
For …

Title: More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
Authors: George Lakoff and Mark Turner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1989
Call Number:PN228 .M4 L27 1989From the Publisher:
"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if …

Title: On Narrative Inquiry : Approaches to Language and Literacy Research / David Schaafsma and Ruth Vinz with contributions from Sara Brock, Randi Dickson, and Nick Sousanis
Authors: David Schaafsma and Ruth Vinz
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Call number: LB1576 .S3163 2011From the Publisher:
Can stories about students and classrooms be the basis for …

For those interested in design education, I suggest checking out Peter Sloterdijk's newly published English version of Bubbles Spheres Volume I: Microspherology translated by Weland Hoban and published by MIT Press. This publication is part of a three-book volume (the other two volumes have not yet been published in English). Although it is not currently …

Title: Free Culture: How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity
Author: Lawrence Lessig
Publisher: Penguin Press, 2004
Call Number:KF2979 .L47 2004From the Publisher:Lawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in …